Lord Bach: Defra research expenditure and commitments at Rothamsted Research and the Institute of Grassland and Economic Research (IGER) for the years in question are as follows:
	
		£'000
		
			  Rothamsted IGER 
			 1999–2000 6,191 6,437 
			 2000–01 6,349 6,275 
			 2001–02 5,922 6,040 
			 2002–03 5,555 6,339 
			 2003–04 5,283 6,537 
			 2004–05 5,109 6,996 
			 2005–06* 4,199 6,361 
			 2006–07** 2,445 5,210 
			 2007–08** 1,692 2,243 
		
	
	* Provisional
	** Figures for these years are incomplete. Data given represents committed and planned expenditure at this time, but many contracts are still under negotiation or are yet to be formally commissioned.

Baroness Greenfield: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What procedures and training exists to help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder in servicemen and women likely to experience combat or other violent or disturbing incidents.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville: We are taking steps to encourage the development of microgeneration. For example, we have:
	provided £41 million of support for solar power projects and £12.5 million of support for household and community renewables projects through the Clear Skies Initiative;
	committed a further £30 million to fund the Low-Carbon Buildings Capital Grant Programme, which will take over from Clear Skies and the Major PV Demonstration Programme in April;
	ensured that most microgeneration technologies benefit from a 5 per cent. VAT level; and
	amended the Renewables Obligation Order to make it easier for smaller generators to claim renewable obligation certificates.
	We are also supporting the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill, which contains several measures to assist the development of microgeneration.
	Future steps we will be taking to encourage the development of microgeneration will be outlined in our strategy for the promotion of microgeneration, which will be published by the beginning of April.

Lord Warner: It is not meaningful to compare the terms of the current General Dental Service (GDS) remuneration system and the new GDS contracts or Personal Dental Service (PDS) arrangements in tabular form. The current GDS is a complex combination of item-of-service and fixed payments. There are more than 400 fees, ranging from £7.30 for a clinical examination to £307.80 for a single orthodontic appliance. In addition, dentists are paid an amount for each patient registered with them.
	The new GDS and PDS arrangements consist of contracts for a defined level of service between the dentist, a dental partnership or a provider of dental services and the commissioning primary care trust. Dentists will have a guaranteed annual contract sum, based on their National Health Service (NHS) earnings during a recent test period, and paid in 12 monthly instalments. In return, they will be expected to provide an agreed level of service over the course of a year, measured in terms of weighted courses of treatment. This will be at least 5 per cent. below current GDS levels.
	A committed NHS dentist currently earns on average around £80,000 per year, after practice expenses are taken into account, and can expect to earn at least this amount in 2006–07, with an uplift to 2006–07 prices.

Lord Berkeley: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether in undertaking their review of the financial memorandum on grant-in-aid for royal travel they will consider (a) imposing a maximum budget for royal travel reimbursed by the taxpayer; (b) restricting the use of helicopters for journeys of fewer than 200 miles; (c) restricting the number of members of the royal family allowed to use transport funded by the taxpayer; and (d) lay before Parliament the revised draft memorandum in the form of a statutory instrument, in order to provide for parliamentary scrutiny of such expenditure.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Government have made no comprehensive assessment of the financial investment in grass-roots sport from television contracts. However, the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) has established and administers a voluntary code, which is independent of government, relating to broadcasting rights and grass-roots sport.
	The signatories, which include 10 national governing bodies of sport, have undertaken to invest at least 5 per cent. of broadcasting income in the development of their sports in order to ensure that the next generation of competitors has the support and facilities necessary to succeed at the highest level.